For one payment of $147 Bookmarking Demon promises “Unlimited Supply Of High PR Backlinks And Laser Targeted Traffic”, let’s look at what you really get and how much it will cost you.

Why Bookmarking Demon?

If you want pages of your website to rank high in Search Engines you need backlinks, one of the strategies to create those backlinks is bookmarking – you bookmark pages on a lot of different Social Bookmarking Sites and they rank higher in SERP’s. Manual creation of bookmarks is time-consuming and mundane process that will drive you nuts before you even get any results (believe me I have tried myself). So this is where Bookmarking Demon comes into play – it helps to speed up and automate the whole process of social bookmarking but this comes at a cost that nobody really explains so read on to be prepared and learn how to properly use Bookmarking Demon to get massive results.

Bookmarking Demon Pros

Let me go over the main features first and then I will explain common pitfalls and hidden costs that you should know about if you want to get any results from Bookmarking Demon software.

Automated Account Creation

Bookmarking Demon supports automatic account creation, which means it will create and verify accounts for you so you can use them for saving your bookmarks, currently it supports 101 bookmarking site and I was able to create accounts on 60 of them automatically which is still good. Keep I mind that you need CAPTCHA recognition service to run this process on autopilot ($4 per 1000 recognized CAPTCHAs).

Add Your Own Websites

Bookmarking Demon supports popular bookmarking scripts like Scuttle, ScuttlePlus, Pligg, PhpDug, PublicBookmark so if you find sites running these scripts you can add them to the list and use them for bookmarking. It is nice feature to have for advanced users if you decide to install one of these scripts on your own server and run your own bookmarking site.

Meta Data Randomization

If you submit your bookmarks with the same title, description and tags across multiple accounts you will leave giant footprint that will lead to suspension of your accounts. To avoid this obvious pattern Bookmarking Demon supports spinning syntax meaning that you can rotate your titles, descriptions and tags using {|} this way you can have different set of metadata for each bookmark that you’re submitting and mimic the way humans save their non-promotional bookmarks.

RSS Camouflage & Randomization

A lot of people make a mistake by only bookmarking their own websites so their accounts look alike and have links to the same sites. Such accounts are labeled as “Self-Promotional” and get deleted. You can avoid that by using “RSS Camouflage” – Bookmarking Demon will bookmark urls from the RSS feeds that you specify, this way your “promotional links” will be mixed up with “regular links”. You can further enhance bookmarking randomization by shuffling and randomizing number of bookmarks per account.

Proxy Servers/CAPTCHA Recognition

You can’t submit hundreds of bookmarks and create bunch of accounts from the same IP address, that’s why you have to use proxy servers (proxies). You can use free proxies but they are highly unreliable so your success rates will be low and process of harvesting and testing them takes a lot of time. The solution is to use high-speed private proxies (they are not free – $2.5 per proxy) you can read more about Bookmarking Demon proxies here. You also need CAPTCHA recognition so you don’t have to manually type text from images when submitting bookmarks, currently Bookmarking Demon supports 2 services:

Decaptcher – $4 per 1000 recognized CAPTCHAs

BypassCaptcha – $14 per 2000 recognized CAPTCHAs (their lowest entry)

Automation is not possible without reliable proxies and CAPTCHA recognition so if you plan to use the software you have to include these costs.

Scheduler

Because you can’t submit all of your bookmarks in one day you have to schedule them, it is pretty easy to do with visual scheduler – you select date range and click “Create Schedule” and Bookmarking Demon will distribute your submissions according to your settings. The only thing – you can’t use the software while the scheduler is running, you have to stop it or wait till it finished to work on another project. The scheduler really allows you to run Bookmarking Demon on auto-pilot.

Ping

Ping helps notify Search Engines and other aggregation services that web page has changed, you can ping any url from Bookmarking Demon – your social profiles, blogs, submitted bookmarks etc… to help faster indexing.

Reports

I would assume that most of the people would prefer to use Bookmarking Demon(BMD) as a set and forget tool for social bookmarking so it would run in a background doing all the work for you. That’s why reports are a handy feature that will allow you to check performance of your campaigns anytime and see what BMD did for you.

Ease of Use/Video Tutorials/Guides

Bookmarking Demon has nice user friendly interface, visual buttons makes it easy to operate, and if you feel a bit overwhelmed in the beginning you can always switch to “Beginner Mode” and follow step by step instructions, you also get 2 PDF guides and 15 HD videos that explain how to use the software and different strategies to achieve maximum results.

Cons of Bookmarking Demon

That was overview of the main features now let’s talk about pitfalls that prevent 90% of people from getting any results and hidden costs of operating the software.

What Results You Can Expect from Bookmarking Demon

If you think that by bookmarking your site 10 times a day you’re going to get top positions in Search Engines for your keywords, I have to disappoint you – you need to do much more than that to get anywhere in TOP10 for relatively competitive keyword. If you want massive results from Bookmarking Demon you have to apply massive leverage, I am talking about 100’s and 1000’s of bookmarks.

How to get results + Hidden Costs

4 Essential Things to Get Results From Bookmarking Demon

Bookmarks & Accounts

Need a lot of bookmarks and accounts to get results

Social Bookmarking Websites have millions of pages with links but not all of them get indexed by Search Engines (if it is not indexed there is no ranking benefit) or it takes months for Search Engine spider to get to that page, so if you want your link to be noticed and indexed by Search Engines you need to have at least 10 bookmarks for each url that you’re trying to promote to rise above the noise, I am usually trying to keep that number around 30 or more, which means I have 30 or more accounts/profiles at each Social Bookmarking site, the more accounts you have the safer you will be, if you try to stuff 100’s of bookmarks into few accounts they will get deleted awfully quickly.

Private Proxies

Need private proxies to scale it

The most common problem with most people’s bookmarking accounts – they bookmark webpages from the same site/s (site/s they’re trying to rank). Social bookmarking sites label such accounts as “Self-promotional” and they are most likely to be deleted, to avoid that you need to mix your “promotional” urls with bookmarks to other websites to mimic natural behavior. Usually I am trying to have 3-5 “regular” bookmarks for each “promotional” url. Let’s do a math for a regular bookmarking campaign so you can see what kind of numbers we’re talking about. Let’s say you need to bookmark 50 pages that you’re trying to rank in SERP’s.

You can’t submit hundreds of bookmarks from your own IP address because it looks unnatural, different people don’t use the same IP. That’s why you have to use proxies (proxy servers) that will mask your IP address, you can use free proxies but they are highly unreliable and most of your bookmarking submissions will fail because of connectivity problems so if you want get any results you have to use private proxies which are not free. You can get private proxies for $2.5/month per proxy. I usually recommend having at least 10 reliable proxies if you want to run your campaigns without interruptions like blocked IPs and suspended accounts. 10 private proxies – that’s $25/month which they don’t mention on the sales page but that’s an added cost that you should know about if you plan to use the software.

CAPTCHA Recognition

Need to pay for CAPTCHA recognition service

A lot of bookmarking websites use CAPTCHA to prevent automated submissions and account creation so if you don’t want to enter CAPTCHAS for thousands of bookmarks you have to use automated CAPTCHA recognition service like Decaptcher. It cost $4 per 1000 of recognized CAPTCHAS to use this service inside Bookmarking Demon so if you’re submitting thousands of bookmarks you can expect to spend at least $10/month on CAPTCHA recognition service because automation is impossible without it.

High PR Tags

As you probably already know bookmarking websites use tags to categorize links, some of the tags are more popular, meaning that a lot of people use these tags when saving their bookmarks, some are less popular. Popular tags usually have high PR (Page Rank) because they have a lot of external and internal links pointing to them so it is highly beneficial in terms of SEO to have you link sitting at the top of the page with high PR. Take a look at couple popular tags below:

http://www.bibsonomy.org/tag/blog – PR5

http://www.bibsonomy.org/tag/1996 – PR0

http://blinklist.com/tag/business – PR6

http://www.delicious.com/tag/howto – PR3

http://www.delicious.com/tag/web2.0 – PR3

http://www.folkd.com/tag/download – PR3

http://www.folkd.com/tag/tv – PR3

http://www.jumptags.com/topic/online/ – PR5

http://www.jumptags.com/topic/watch/ – PR5

http://www.oneview.com/tags/seo/ – PR4

http://www.oneview.com/tags/photos/ – PR4

http://url.org/tags/google/ – PR4

http://url.org/tags/social/ – PR4

By being listed at the top of the list on popular tags you also get traffic from people searching bookmarking sites for information. Popular tags usually list the most popular bookmarks or the most recent ones so you either need to have your url bookmarked a lot of times using particular tag or constant flow of bookmarks to stay at the top of the list; either or you need to have a lot of accounts to do that. Being listed on popular tags not only helps your rankings but also helps indexing because Search Engine spiders crawl those pages regularly.

The problem is that most of the people only use keywords that they’re trying to rank for as their tags. Let’s say you’re trying to rank for keyword “Bookmarking Demon” so you use tags “bookmarking demon, bookmarking demon review, bookmarking demon discount, bookmarking demon 5…” but the problem is that those tags usually have PR0 and are buried deep within the site so you won’t get as much SEO benefit as you’re hoping for. The key here is to use combination of “keyword tags” and “popular tags” that are relevant to the content that you’re trying to bookmark and use them consistently so you get to the top of the list on popular tags pages.

Conclusion

Bookmarking Demon doesn’t have monthly subscription fees but you should be ready to spend at least $35/month as the cost of operating the software (Private proxies + CAPTCHA recognition) if you want to see the results and don’t want to spend hours every day managing the process.

If you do it right it works, BUT should you use it as your primary link building tool? I don’t think so because there are tools on the market that allow you accomplish more while doing less work. Tools like SYNND (read full review), it is a bit more expensive than Bookmarking Demon but you don’t have to worry about account creation and managing the process, only upload your data and the system will do all the promotion for you. It will do bookmarking, voting for your content on Facebook and popular social news sites like DIGG, reddit etc, syndicate your articles to article directories, re-tweet your message on Twitter, the whole Internet marketing shebang. If you’re looking for a tool that can handle all of your online promotions in one place you should check out SYNND.

If the SYNND is a little steep for you right now you can safely go with the Bookmarking Demon as it is the best tool for automated social bookmarking, but please don’t forget that social bookmarking is only one of link building methods and you should use other sources of links to diversify and broaden your linking profile.